Assignment Name: |
Country: |
Acquisition of
Tobacco and Eucalyptus fields through Satellite Image
interpretation and installation of GIS/GPS for monitoring
and evaluation of crop growth |
Uganda |
Location within country: |
Positions provided
by WE Consult: |
Arua
and Hoima district |
Project Manager,
Remote Sensing specialist, GIS/GPS specialist, Assistant
GIS/GPS expert |
Name
and Address of client: |
No. of staff
months: |
Funding
agency: |
British American
Tobacco Ltd
Plot 69/71 Jinja road
Kampala |
6 |
BAT |
Start
Date
(Month / Year) |
Completion
Date (Month/ Year) |
Total
contract price of the assignment |
03/06 |
09/06 |
90,000 US $ |
Name of Associated
Firm(s), if any: |
Name of Senior staff
of WE Consult involved: |
Nieuwland Geo-information,
The Netherlands |
S. Dieleman (Project
Manager, GIS specialist)
E. Bunnya (GIS/GPS Assistant |
Narrative description
of project: |
The project was
a follow up on the previous project carried out for BAT
in 2005. It aimed to acquire tobacco fields though satellite
image interpretation. Groud truthing was carried out
in the field, database setup of ground truthing information.
Image (SPOT) interpretation has been carried out with
ILWIS software in order to establish links between spectral
folders of tobacco fields in the satellite image with
the ground truthing information collected in the field.
Besides this, a GIS has been installed in BAT-Arua, BAT-Hoima
and BAT Head quarters and 100 BAT field staff has been
trained in the use of hadheld GPS receivers. Three BAT
staff members have been trained in GIS and thematic mapping |
Description of services
provided by your staff: |
- Procurement of SPOTsatellite image
- GPS mapping of tobacco fields
- Database setup of ground truthing data
- Thematic mapping
- Image interpretation (Nieuwland Geo-Information)
- GPS training
- GIS training
- Quality control
- Project management
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